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Why was a abbey adage a abiding accumulation for my father, a arresting Chasidic rabbi?
Ten canicule afterwards my father, Clergyman Chaim Grosz, of adored memory, anesthetized away, I accustomed a ample manila envelope with a admirable agenda central from a Catholic abbey in New Jersey. The advanced of the agenda had a woman alleged "Mary Queen of the Missions". The central had a preprinted anatomy in which the abbey was activity to say a Abiding Accumulation for the body of Chaim Grosz, his name anxiously handwritten.
My ancestor and his ancestors sojourned briefly to a DP affected in Italy aloof afore they came to the United States. My father's ancestor was a acclaimed Rabbi. Like best Chasidic Hungarian Rabbis, my grandfathering wore a connected atramentous bathrobe and a annular abbreviate hat fabricated of beaver, and as was the custom for a "man of God," he absolved with his easily bound abaft his back. And so, ambagious my grandfathering for a priest, the old Italian women would blitz at him and advance to kiss him in their religious fervor.
My grandfathering went to abundant lengths to abstain this situation, activity so far as to change his clothes and to do aggregate he could to blitz his abandonment out of Italy. What would he anticipate of this Abiding Accumulation agenda that was beatific on account of my father, a begat of a Chasidic dynasty?
As the "next of kin" and the executrix of his estate, I was beatific the card. But I didn't acquaint anyone about it; it didn't accomplish sense! I alleged the abbey attractive for answers. The secretary who answered the buzz had a collapsed Boston accent. She didn't apperceive annihilation about it but promised that she would get the "Father himself" to alarm me. O Ancestor who art in Heaven? What did my ancestor do?
My throat bankrupt up and my eyes got wet cerebration about "The Case." In the mid-1970's, my grandfathering had a affection advance and he could no best airing to synagogue. Jewish law prohibits active on Shabbos and there was no "eruv," the aeriform bound band that would accept accustomed him to be pushed in a wheelchair breadth he lived. There was artlessly no way he could get to abbey on the angelic Sabbath and his abject cries were heartbreaking.
So my ancestor apparent the botheration by transforming our ancestors allowance into an bogus synagogue, a shteibel which is Yiddish for "room." One day a week, we absent out on the allowance that adumbrated that we were a nice American family. Added Holocaust survivors, anxious for Chasidic appearance prayers as able-bodied as the accepted Slivovitz and herring additionally came. All told, there were maybe 15 old men, some with numbers tattoos on their accoutrements and some without, but all were aching in some way by the war. They would appear on Friday nights and Saturday mornings not so abundant to adjure to God, but to see anniversary other, adhering to anniversary added in their reminiscences about a way of activity that no best existed.
But this was not to last. Afterwards three weeks of these weekend gatherings, the neighbors absitively to put a stop to it and they alleged Cipher Enforcement.
The burghal of Miami Beach capital to aing bottomward these Friday night and Saturday day adoration groups. To the burghal officials, this was absolutely a zoning issue. We lived in a distinct ancestors residential breadth – the law acutely declared that we could not ascendancy adoration casework in our home – case closed.
My father, who spent his aboriginal two years of activity with a rag blimp in his aperture so that no one could apprehend him cry or accomplish any array of sound, had alone one aggregate already it was removed: Bellowing. The ablaze adventurousness that had fueled his absolute actuality clicked into accessory and he was not activity to aback down. He was bombastic. Furious. This was America! This was his admired father! This was aloof a allowance in his abode breadth he was hosting already a anniversary adoration gatherings with 15 old men!
No advocate would booty his case. This was adjoin the Burghal of Miami Beach zoning rules and the old adage "You can't activity Burghal Hall" appeared to be true. Except Chaim Grosz didn't get the message.
As the son of a rabbi, my ancestor was alone accustomed to go up to the fourth brand in English or civil studies. At the breakable age of 17, his accuracy was accustomed and he accustomed his apostolic allotment from one of the best admired Chasidic Rabbis in the world. Fearless as well, he absitively that if no attorneys would booty his case, he would do it himself and await on his biggy accomplishments in Talmudic law.
With the acquirement of an IBM Selectric typewriter with the drop-in brawl in Times New Roman forth with three bales of legal-size paper, I became my father's acknowledged assistant. I abstruse words like "heretofore," "plaintiff," "defendant," how to blazon in justified margins, and we relied on a acknowledged concordance for authority.
My ancestor absent the aboriginal annular because of the zoning laws that banned a abbey in a residential area. Filled with acerbity at what he perceived to be an anti-God and anti-Jewish action, he affronted the adjudicator and got a 60 day abeyant sentence.
In 1979, apery himself, armed with conviction, two religious books (a massive Cipher of Jewish Law and Talmud), his nephew Heshy and my anxiously worded and typed briefs, he boxlike off adjoin Janet Reno in the Supreme Cloister of the State of Florida. Attorneys do not like "common people" apery themselves. My ancestor came able to the aerial cloister dressed in clothing and tie – clothes he did not commonly wear. He was a abbreviate annular man, no added than 5'3" in atramentous pants that were ailing hemmed. He looked like a adolescent aing to the over 6-foot Janet Reno.
The State asserted the affirmation that my ancestor created a abode of adoration in an breadth that was banned by the zoning cipher – a bald ordinance. In return, he absitively to activity them with Constitutional law. He laid out his action advertence that the Aboriginal Amendment had both abandon of adoration and the appropriate to accumulate peacefully. He again quoted the 14th Amendment which ratified the States to acquiesce peaceful assembly. The State alleged up their able attestant who would explain to the cloister what a abbey looks like.
When it was my father's about-face to cross-examine, he hoisted up the two ample Hebrew books assimilate the attestant stand. He asked the able to apprehend in Hebrew the requirements for a synagogue, but the able could not apprehend Hebrew!
Perhaps the adjudicator was charmed by the "Your Excellency," but admitting active objections from the State Attorney, he removed the expert. My ancestor explained how a abbey operates adjoin a adoration accumulation meeting: There were no dues; he fabricated no money; it occurred alone on the weekend. Furthermore, no one drove, as it was the angelic Sabbath, and so no cars were bottleneck up the swales. Finally, there were never added than 15 men. It was a religious meeting, authentic and simple, adequate beneath both the aboriginal and fourteenth amendments.
He not alone won the appeal, he was featured in the Miami Herald, and on the three account channels (ABC, NBC, and CBS) that existed then. It was a amazing victory. He went up adjoin Burghal Hall, the State of Florida, the State Attorney who became the Attorney General of the United States and the Supreme Cloister of Florida.
His case set a precedent. And this Catholic abbey in New Jersey, a Korean temple in Hawaii, a Santeria abbey in Hialeah, and hundreds of others acclimated his case as antecedence to activity their own religious and zoning battles.
I still accept the Abiding Accumulation agenda forth with his affidavit and his wallet in my assurance drop box. It's a attestation to a man who already born, wasn't accustomed to speak, who congenital a baby abbey to amuse his father, and concluded bringing God everywhere.


Signet's worst performer over the holiday season in North America? Jared the Galleria of Jewelry stores, where comps dropped 8 percent. CEO Gina Drosos said department store discounting and lack of interest in "legacy" lines hurt Signet this season.
Akron, Ohio—Signet rolled out new product, new commercials, ramped up digital marketing and improved its websites, but it was not enough to counter department store discounting and declining interest in lines that were once bestsellers.
In the nine-week period ended Jan. 5, Signet Jewelers Ltd.'s same-store sales (including stores in both North America and the United Kingdom) slipped 1 percent year-over-year, with brick-and-mortar comps down 2 percent but online sales growing 6 percent to $222.3 million.
Total sales dropped 3 percent to $1.84 billion.
"Our holiday season performance fell short of our expectations," CEO Gina Drosos said in the company's earnings release issued Thursday morning.
Signet warned in early December that department store discounting was going to be a problem, and Drosos said Thursday that promotions "intensified" as the month wore on.
Despite Signet's attempt to keep up by holding sales, stores were not crowded enough during the key weeks of December and there was a larger-than-expected drop in sales of lines like LeVian and Ever Us, while newer lines such as Enchanted Disney Fine Jewelry and Love + Be Loved performed well.
In North America, which includes mall staples Zales and Kay Jewelers as well as Jared the Galleria of Jewelry, holiday comps were down 0.7 percent.
Piercing Pagoda continued to be Signet's top performer, with sales there jumping 17 percent. Peoples (comps up 5 percent) and Zales (comps up 3 percent) also saw sales increase.
Outside of the regional brand stores Signet is in the process of closing, Jared recorded the worst performance, with holiday comps dropping 8 percent while same-store sales at Kay and James Allen slipped 0.8 percent and 0.2 percent, respectively.
In light of its holiday performance, Signet revised its fourth quarter guidance—it now expects comps to be down as much as 3 percent—and is projecting flat same-store sales for the fiscal year.
The retailer is scheduled to report its fourth quarter and full year earnings on March 14 and will provide an update on its plans for FY 2020 then, Drosos said.


The bananas you bought when you left were ready to be bread before your return. I want to bake them for you, large loaves the size of a lap dog, miniature ones you could eat like a summer pear. The clocks in this kitchen make me anxious—their red tongues clicking at my waiting. The noon church bell shaking its head at my wine rituals. The way I pop the cork when I hear what I want to be your keys rattling at the door. Kitchen speckled with the shedding of a cork shoved back into a bottle too many times. I know I can count on these bananas not to leave. I know I can count bananas: three. They start to beg larger, sunken spots but who am I to make them go? The rot of them smells like vinegar and I thank them for making the home seem cleaner for your return. Apples shrivel, counter flowers wilt from the waves of ethylene gas the bananas toss around the kitchen. The stink of the flowers invites flies that I cup in my hands and help into the freezer for later when you come and I can show you how long you were gone. Let them leak into the kitchen as to say It was so long and you should know but it's okay. The butter in the dish looks fine but I wonder if it's suffering. Wonder if I'm just imagining the growing of the bruises on my knees. The knobs of the door seem okay too but I check them just to be sure.
Chrissy Martin is a poetry MFA candidate at Columbia College Chicago. She is an Editor for Columbia Poetry Review and manages the journal's blog and social media. She is also an Editorial Assistant for RHINO Poetry and the Poetry Editor for Arcturus Magazine. She is a graduate of The University of Akron where she received her BA in English with minors in Creative Writing, Women's Studies, and Popular Literature and Film. Her work has appeared in Amazon's Day One, LUMINA and Small Po[r]tions.


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Atomic advantage
Korea's power rates have remained virtually unchanged for the past decade, with no big fluctuations. The stable electronic bills are playing a pivotal role in absorbing the shock of rising raw material costs in the global market. Last year, Korea's electric bills were 77.85 won ($0.08) per kilowatt hour, much lower than the 123.78 won in Japan and 82.27 won in the United States. The key to this success lies in technological advancements in atomic power generation.
Of course, the international price of uranium increased 13 times over what it was a decade ago. However, at a nuclear plant uranium accounts for just 2.5 percent of the costs of power generation. At thermal power plants, coal and oil account for 70 percent of the plant's total costs.
Environmentalists protest that uranium will run out some day, just like fossil fuels. But global uranium reserves, which exceed 15 million tons, are ample enough to get by for more than 230 years. Resource-poor countries are relying on atomic power generation as one of the most stable sources of energy.
Oil or coal has become a lethal weapon that can pose a major threat to nations that lack natural resources. Alternative energies such as biofuels or wind or solar power are still expensive, and there is a long way to go in terms of commercialization. For the time being, there are few alternative energy sources other than atomic power.
Fortunately, President Lee Myung-bak said on April 19, "It is dangerous to insist on developing fossil fuel power generation. If we place a greater deal of weight on the development of atomic power, we will succeed in providing energy in a stable manner." This is good to hear. The government should be actively overhauling energy policies across the board to expand the scope of atomic power.
Environmentalists should renew their awareness of atomic power. Atomic technologies have undergone remarkable development. The Gori-1 nuclear power reactor was built 30 years ago, but it will run for 10 more years thanks to Korea's top-notch maintenance and repair technologies. Korean communities were also wise enough to decide on where to dispose of nuclear waste through a plebiscite.
Korea's environmental groups should open up to the idea of nuclear power plants. These days, environmental organizations in developed countries do not make indiscriminate criticisms, and try to accept reality as it is. We can no longer be a slave to oil from the Middle East.

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You've tried running, cycling, and old school aerobics. These cardio exercises are great for torching calories and shedding some weight. The problem is that they are exhausting, and difficult on the joints. You have heard people mention Pilates as a good form of exercise, but you feel like it won't give you an adequate workout. After all, if you are not sweating profusely, and ready to pass out after 30 minutes of exercise, you are not working hard enough, right? Wrong. Pilates is fitness' best kept secret.
Let's start off with the obvious. Ballerina's do Pilates. Have you ever seen a ballerina who does not have a rock solid body? Me either. That should be proof enough of its effectiveness. But in case it is not, let's talk a little bit about why Pilates is so effective for slimming and toning the body.
First, using small movements to work the smaller muscles to the point of exhaustion actually helps with weight loss. Pilates will tax the muscles, causing an increase calorie burn. An added bonus is that you will continue to burn calories throughout the day. Can't say this for cardio exercise, where you burn a bunch of calories, but then your metabolic rate returns to normal within an hour or so.
Secondly, if you want a toned body, there is nothing quite like Pilates. Again, think about a ballerina. The best part is, you don't have to use any weights. Pilates uses the force of your own body to act as resistance to target small muscles, which will in turn tone your entire body. All you need is a chair for balance and you are ready to go.
You don't have to do heavy lifting or extensive cardio to get results. Pilates is one of the best ways to get a really great, low impact workout. Doing Pilates for 20 minutes, three to five days a week, along with healthy eating will help you drop dress sizes in no time.


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Q: PHP - strtotime() return 1970 The following code snippet:
echo date("d.m.Y-H:i:s", strtotime("01.01.2000-11:12:32"));

returns me:

01.01.1970-01:00:00

What's the right way to convert "01.01.2000-11:12:32" to time/date object, for comparing it with the current timestamp?
e.g.
if (date("d.m.Y-H:i:s") > date("d.m.Y-H:i:s", strtotime("01.01.2000-11:12:32"))) {
    echo "future";
} else {
    echo "past";
}

A: This is due to localisation. Try giving a different format, as the format matters a lot:
echo date("d.m.Y-H:i:s", strtotime("01/01/2000 11:12:32"));
echo date("d.m.Y-H:i:s", strtotime("01-01-2000 11:12:32"));

*

*You should not have . for date and month separator.

*You cannot separate date and time using -.

If you are getting the input from another source, try using str_replace:
echo date("d.m.Y-H:i:s", strtotime(str_replace(array(".", "-"), array("/", " "), "01.01.2000-11:12:32")));

Output: http://ideone.com/d19ATK

A: Try to replace . with -:
echo date("d.m.Y-H:i:s", strtotime(str_replace('.', '-', "01.01.2000 11:12:32")));
Also remove - between the date and time.

A: You can use DateTime::createFromFormat
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d.m.Y-H:i:s', '01.01.2000-11:12:32');
$now = new DateTime();

if ($now > $date) {
    echo "future";
} else {
    echo "past";
}

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Kerala attracts Number of tourists every year from all around the world. Kerala's backwaters is the most popular tourist attraction of Kerala with a network of 44 rivers, lagoons and lakes from north to south. Indian tour Operators offers you an unique experience and an opportunity to get close to nature with exquisite destinationslike : Cochin, Kumarakom, Alleppey, Cochin.
The tour-guide will take you to the scheduled hotel from the Cochin Airport/ the Ernakulum Railway station. The tour starts in the noon with visiting the Arabian Sea-gateway. On arriving at the fort of Cochin, we would start our local tour checking out the notable frescos of The Dutch Palace, the hand-painted tiles, dazzling chandeliers and copper plate decree relics of The Jewish Synagogue, striking paintings of St. Francis Church, and also commendable methods of installation and application of the Chinese Fishing-nets, which are marquees of Cochin.
Then a return to Cochin Harbor is scheduled.
We would visit the Cochin beach in the evening and then you can enjoy the classical Kathakali show, before staying back at the hotel overnight.
Post-breakfast we start for Kumarakom, which is near the Vembanad Lake. The lush green flora and the pleasant climate make Kumarakom one of the best known places for honeymooners. Then another local tour starts with visiting the lively Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary. The 14 acres of avian populace is a paradise for ornithologists. A good range of birds are found here, from local varieties from cuckoos, owls, waterfowls to migrating species.
Facilities of Swimming pool, getting an Ayurveda Massage, visiting the Health club, or enjoying indoor/outdoor games are available to relax with.
Post-breakfast you start for Alleppey in a fully furnished deluxe houseboat from Kumarakom. The houseboat is expected to have single and double bedrooms, a sundeck, along with a private balcony and a well-furnished kitchen with good chefs, oarsmen and cabin crews at your service too.
You will be able to enjoy viewing lush paddy fields, creatively made coir villages, water lilies, rustic houses, eminent shrines and coconut groves all the way.
The boat will reach Alleppey within the time of completing breakfast. Alleppey has been an indispensable Kerala trade center since age-old times of kings, and is still one important center owing to its booming coir industry.
The afternoon begins with touring around Alleppey, including a visit to the pristinely composed and tepid Alleppey Beach, the eminent Kuttanad- famous as the Rice-bowl of the state, and others.
Post-breakfast you need to check-out of your hotel by 9.30am. After being driven back to Cochin, you will be taken to the railway Station / Airport for your scheduled departure.


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Homeowners Find Human Skeleton In Their New Home
Michael Doherty
Homeowners in Houston were shocked to discover a human skeleton inside the walls of the home they were moving in to.
The new homeowners were reportedly moving in to the $400,000 house when they found the skeletal remains. They said that they moved a loose board in a wall of the home, revealing a hole where they could see a pile of bones, according to KHOU.
The homeowners contacted police, who opened up the wall to find the rest of the skeleton, along with tattered clothes and a pair of red glasses.
According to neighbors, the home's previous owner, Mary Cerruti, went missing two years ago. A medical examiner is in the process of identifying the bones to see if they belong to Cerruti.
Since Cerruti's disappearance, neighbors have reportedly debated what happened to the 61-year-old. Some have speculated that Cerruti may have been murdered, while others said that she may have sold her home to a nearby luxury apartment complex and left, according to Newser.
Cerruti had reportedly stopped paying her mortgage around the time of her sudden disappearance.
The skeleton's identity has yet to be confirmed, and Houston police say that they haven't ruled out the possibility that someone may have tripped and fallen from the attic into the space behind the wall.
Houston Police Detective Jason Fay said the new homeowners were "a little worried because they have a body in the house," the Houston Chronicle reports.
"Was it someone who was killed and stuffed in the wall, or did they accidentally pass away by ending up in the wall?" Fay mused.
Neighbor Mark DeBoer said the home had been abandoned since he moved to the neighborhood a few years ago. He recalled the lawn being overgrown and a "for sale" sign in front.
"That sort of thing is supposed to go on the seller's disclosure," DeBoer said of Cerruti's disappearance.
In a similar, eerie story from 2011, a family made a disturbing discovery of bones, embalming fluid and photos of corpses in the attic of the home in Knightstown, Indiana, they had just moved into.
Patricia and Richard Booher initially thought the boxes left in the attic were "knickknacks or some old dishes."
But when Richard began to open the boxes, he found embalming fluid, along with knives, scalpels and other medical equipment. The couple also found pictures of corpses being worked on with the tools, along with bones that investigators later determined to be human.
The couple also found a skeleton, which medical examiners determined was a model used for educational purposes. The couple later discovered a previous tenant had worked at a funeral home.
"Look at them from the standpoint of an individual who is keeping a portfolio of his work," said Knightstown Police Officer Anthony Lorton. "To the everyday person, they are going to be disturbing to look at, but for a person trying to get a job at a funeral home, they are examples of his work."
"Is it creepy? Yes," said Lorton. "Criminal? No."
Sources: Daily Mail (2), Houston Chronicle, KHOU, Newser / Photo credit: Zillow via Daily Mail
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Turned out 1 GB of RAM is not enough for the Solus OS installer. Couldn't get it working.
I've tried Xubuntu instead on the Asus Eee PC and while performance was still awful, the installer succeeded and I have a running system now.
@thomas How about MX Linux? Thought it'd be a good choice for low end hardware.


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Jon Lewis named Bangladesh batting coach
Bangladesh has appointed Jon Lewis as batting coach for the upcoming two bilateral series against the West Indies and New Zealand, the country's cricket board said on Wednesday.
The 50-year-old Englishman, who had served as batting coach of Sri Lanka cricket team, will step in the shoes of Neil McKenzie, who stepped down last August citing family reasons.
"He (Lewis) is coming in a day or two, after which we will speak in person. We had three or four coaches in our shortlist but we considered his experience," BCB's cricket operations chairman Akram Khan was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo.
"After discussing the shortlist among ourselves, including the head coach, we decided to select him.
"Due to the pandemic, nobody wants to go on a long-term contract. We will see him for a couple of series and then see if we can keep him for a longer period."
Lewis, who scored 16 first-class centuries in a career spanning nearly two decades, is also an experienced coach, having led Durham to three trophies between 2013 and 2016.
Bangladesh will host West Indies from January 20 to February 15, playing three ODIs and two Tests, before touring New Zealand to play three ODIs and three T20Is in March.
Bangladesh will miss the services of bowling coach Daniel Vettori for the West Indies series as he continues to stay in New Zealand but will be available for the next series.
Akram said Vettori decided to remain in New Zealand due to the "strict and limited" COVID-19 protocols laid down by the country.
"We have also run into trouble with Vettori, who wanted to come (for the West Indies series). But there are a lot of difficult formalities (strict protocols) when someone returns to New Zealand," he said.
"Anyone going out of the country has to mention when he or she is returning, and then the quarantine facilities are limited. He is going to join us when we go to New Zealand next month, and in the meantime Sohel Islam will take his place."
Skipper Balbirnie hopes to see Ireland players perform consistently to bag IPL contract
The 13th edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) was staged without crowds or the usual glamour due to coronavirus pandemic, but the cricket fever skyrocketed among the fans who were waiting to see world-class players compete in the showpiece event.
Ireland skipper Andrew Balbirnie doesn't shy away from admitting that the IPL is the best T2O league in the world. The right-handed batsman, who is famous for his explosive batting, wants to feature in the tournament but knows that he has to perform consistently for the Irish side in the limited-overs leg to get required recognition among the franchises. No Ireland cricketer in 13 years has earned an IPL contract and skipper Balbirnie feels it will be a massive moment if any Irish player is able to do so.
"It will be massive. IPL is the best T20 league in the world with the best players in the world. I know Ahmed (UAE skipper Ahmed Raza) was part of Royal Challengers Bangalore and he could probably say how good the experience was," said Balbirnie.
"In IPL you get to talk to the best players, best coaches in the world. And the exposure a player gets is massive," he added
Paul Stirling and Balbirnie had played knocks of 142 and 113 respectively to help Ireland defeat England by seven wickets last year in August. Balbirnie feels Ireland players need to perform consistently as they did against England to grab an IPL contract.
"But to get that opportunity we need to put in performances for Ireland like we did in England and get to the top of table more often, performances like that on regular basis," he said.
Ireland will lock horns with UAE before they play Afghanistan in the World Cup Super League fixtures later this month. The four-match Abu Dhabi ODI series between UAE and Ireland will be shown live in India on Eurosport and Eurosport HD starting Friday.
Felt like we gained a lot from IPL: UAE skipper Raza
UAE skipper Ahmed Raza on Wednesday said he gained a lot by training along the likes of Virat Kohli during the IPL and hoped the experience would come handy when his team takes on Ireland in the upcoming four-match ODI series in Abu Dhabi.
Raza along with wrist spinner Karthik Meiyappan trained with the Royal Challengers Bangalore during the IPL held in the UAE in September last year, while seamer Zahoor Khan spent time with the Mumbai Indians team.
"The IPL was massive. The experience you get over there training with the likes of Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, and bowling to them is great. We felt like we'd gained a lot when we left the IPL," he told reporters during a virtual press conference ahead of series beginning on January 8.
"It's hard to put into words, but you start feeling different, and you're different in your approach as well. I hope that whatever we learned in that period, we can showcase in our performances in this series."
UAE skipper Raza said his team has a good mix of youth and experience.
"You want to win every game you play, and this series is no different. We want to win all the games and win the series. We're playing in our own backyard and looking at the squad, there's a good mix of youth and experience," he said.
"We have to keep an eye on the 2023 World Cup down the line. Looking at the four or five youngsters in the squad, they all played in the Under-19 World Cup and put in performances."
Oldest living first-class cricketer Alan Burgess passes away at 100
The world's oldest living first-class cricketer Alan Burgess has passed away at the age of 100, the New Zealand Cricket (NZC) announced on Wednesday.
A right-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler, Alan appeared in 11 first-class matches for Canterbury from 1940/41 to 1951/52 and also for New Zealand Services in England in 1945. He took 6-52 on debut against Otago at Lancaster Park in a match that began on Christmas Day 1940. "NZC is saddened to learn of the passing of the world's oldest-living first-class cricketer, Alan Burgess. Alan's daughter Pip said her father died overnight in his sleep, aged 100, at the Charles Upham Retirement Village in Rangiora," the Blackcaps tweeted.
"Otago's Iain Gallaway, aged 98, is now NZ's oldest surviving first-class cricketer. We understand Indian player Raghunath Chandorkar now takes over the mantle as the world's oldest surviving," it added.
Pip also said her father had been in good health up to the end and had spent much of Tuesday watching New Zealand play Pakistan in the second Test, on TV, and had seen Kane Williamson bring up his double century.
Meanwhile, New Zealand toppled Australia to become the number one side in Test rankings after an innings and 176-run massive victory over Pakistan in the second Test.
Williamson-led side clean-swept Pakistan in the two-match Test series. They have also gained crucial points to strengthen their position in the ICC World Test Championship standings.
New Zealand now has 118 points and lead the charts. They have achieved the feat for the first time in rankings history. Australia with 116 points stands at second spot followed by India (114), England (106), and South Africa (96).
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The most important decision you will make on the road to your custom home is choosing the right builder. Choose well and you will have a true partner; one that will bring to life your dream home, and ultimately a house that your family will love living in for a lifetime. Settle for less-than-the-right-fit and you may regret it, not just during the build, but for years to come.
A custom home isn't a temporary residence. This is the place where you and your family will live for years to come. The place where your children will laugh, play and run down the halls. The place where you'll entertain family and friends during holidays, birthdays and Saturday afternoons. The last thing you want to worry about are repairs, especially repairs to critical structural systems that may be difficult and costly to fix or upgrade later.
Your first priority when selecting a builder should be the quality of their work. Ask to tour past projects, be sure to check references, and question the builder about the structural materials you can't see.
The key to your home's longevity is a solid foundation throughout, and your custom home builder should be choosing high quality products from the countertops all the way down to the framing. Ask builder candidates what materials they use, so you can be sure that you are getting a quality-built home from the ground up.
Narrowing your search for a builder can be a bit overwhelming. A good start is searching based on your future home's location. From there, you can browse for builder portfolios and past floor plans. Word-of-mouth is also a great way to learn about local builders.
Consult friends and family who have already built custom homes, create a list of potential builders and conduct thorough interviews.
Some of the best builders to work with are fully transparent and happy to answer every question from the start. They will give you a timeline and a comprehensive estimate in a prompt manner. They will tell you their building philosophy and what products they use. And, they'll tell you their relationship with contractors and all the different people who will be helping build your home. Steer clear of builders who have trouble answering these questions clearly.
This might be the first time you've built a custom home, and no one enjoys appearing uneducated. But, building a custom home is a huge investment of both your money and time. A good builder is not only willing to answer even your most ridiculous questions, but will encourage you to ask them as well.
Make sure your communication styles are in sync.
Find a builder and design team with whom you can connect. The ideal team will ask questions and listen to your goals and vision. They will work hard to understand what products and design will best fit your lifestyle. Connecting on needs and wants early in the process can help avoid headaches later.
If a builder takes long periods of time to respond to you, it may be an early sign that you will experience frustration with communication throughout the build. You want a builder who responds promptly and makes you feel like their only customer.
In the end, you want a home that has been crafted to fit your family's needs. There will most likely be more than one road block along the way, so be sure to choose a builder who will make that road as smooth as possible.
There's no silver bullet for selecting the right builder for you. But, following these tips may help lead you toward a builder you can trust and one that uses quality materials on your dream home.


We've analyzed 5 major cities (with a population of greater than 250,000) where it might be a better idea to purchase a home than rent one. We based this on property values and rental averages, including how much a property rented out for $1,000 per month in each city is worth. Think about saving up for a down payment and purchasing a home in one of these five cities as opposed to renting month to month.
Located in Arizona's Sonoran desert, Tucson proper is home to 500,000 people – while the greater metropolitan area is closer to 1,000,000. It's also home to the University of Arizona, so there is a young workforce with lots of shops, restaurants, and nightclubs. If you rent a home for $1,000 in Tucson, on average that home will be worth just under $200,000.
The largest city in the USA in terms of land size, Jacksonville is located in Northeastern Florida where the St. Johns River meets the Atlantic Ocean. Housing prices are relatively affordable in Jacksonville, with the average $1,000 per month rental property being valued at $172,080.
Located in South Central Texas, San Antonio might be best known for being home to the Alamo. It's also home to some really affordable housing. You can rent out a home valued at $161,000 for roughly $1,000 a month – not a bad investment!
The Steel City, the City of Bridges, Sixburgh – Whatever you want to call it, Pittsburgh is a great place to call home. It's also a great place to purchase property as opposed to renting. A $144,000 home will on average rent out for $1,000 per month in Pittsburgh, likely covering most of your mortgage payments.
Detroit has seen hard times, but the city is making a comeback. A housing shortage has led to a rise in property values, but they're still extremely affordable if you're looking for a new place to call home. As businesses come back to the city, we'd expect housing prices to rise. A $1,000 per month rental in Detroit is on average valued at $75,240.


Ann Epidemiol. 2019 Jan;29:46-51. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2018.10.002. Epub 2018 Oct 13.
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Electronic address: scm2170@cumc.columbia.edu.
Depression is a prevalent health problem affecting U.S. women. Oral contraceptive pills (OCPs) are commonly used for pregnancy prevention, and evidence is mixed regarding any increased risk for incident depression among users, particularly adolescents.
We examined the relationship between OCP use and depressive disorders among female adolescents using validated, structured interview assessments in a general population sample of adolescents in the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement. Respondents were 4765 female adolescents with no history of pregnancy who reported current OCP use, lifetime OCP use, and age of OCP initiation. Lifetime and current depressive disorders, including major depressive disorder and depressive episodes, were assessed by lay interviewers.
In logistic regression models adjusted for a range of confounders, there was no relationship between ever using OCPs and lifetime depressive disorder (OR 1.10, 95% CI 0.88-1.37), nor current use of OCPs and current depressive disorder (OR 0.82, 95% CI 0.50-1.35). Using survival analysis for age-of-onset data, we found that OCP use is not associated with an increased risk of depressive disorders.
In sum, use of OCPs in a general population sample of adolescents did not increase the risk of depressive disorders.


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City gives Blazers break on lease ... Ice sweeps out eight scouts ... Oil Kings waive goalie
F Danis Zaripov (Swift Current, 1998-99) has been suspended by the IIHF until May 22, 2019, for using illegal substances. One of Zaripov's samples tested positive for banned stimulants, as well as substances prohibited as diuretics and masking agents. Multiple sources have said Zaripov will appeal. There is no comment so far from the IIHF, KHL or his team, Ak Bars Kazan (Russia, KHL). . . . Patrick Conway of Conway's Russian Hockey Blog has more right here. . . .
D Tomáš Voráček (Prince Albert, 2007-09) has signed a tryout contract with Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia, KHL). Last season, he had two goals and three assists in 43 games with Mladá Boleslav (Czech Republic, Extraliga). . . .
F Matt Fraser (Red Deer, Kootenay, 2006-11) has signed a one-year contract with Dornbirn (Austria, Erste Bank Liga). Last season, he was pointless in four games with Rögle Ängelholm (Sweden, SHL). Fraser was sidelined by injury until Feb. 28.
If they haven't already, landlords to WHL teams just might be hearing from their tenants one of these days. It seems that the league and its teams are concerned about flat ticket sales and are looking for some relief.
Sandman Centre, home of the Kamloops Blazers.
(Photo: sandmancentre.ca)
The City of Kamloops has revealed that it approved a new 10-year lease for the Blazers in February, one that cut the rent by about $150,000 per season.
Jeff Putnam, the city's parks and civic facilities manager, told Andrea Klassen of Kamloops This Week that the WHL and its teams have been working to renegotiate leases.
"The league was having some concerns about their ticket revenue being flat," Putnam said. "They're not struggling, but they're having challenges with attracting a different demographic. And that was a league-wide issue."
Klassen reported that the Blazers, whose lease was to expire in 2018, will pay a base rental fee of $128,000 to use the Sandman Centre for 2017-18, down from $278,000 in 2016-17.
Although the Blazers came to an agreement with city officials in February, Klassen reported that "a record of the vote was only recently released."
According to Klassen, "Under the new deal . . . if more than 3,500 tickets are sold for a game, the city will receive an additional $1.40 per ticket sold above the 3,500 mark."
Last season, the Blazers' announced average attendance was 3,782 for 36 regular-season home games. However, there frequently were far fewer bums in the seats than the announced figure, meaning there were a lot of no-shows.
The Blazers also pay the city $250,000 per season in exchange for all advertising rights in the arena.
(The city announced two years ago that it had entered into a 10-year agreement with the Sandman Hotel Group for naming rights to the arena, but has never revealed the financial terms. Tom Gaglardi, the Blazers' majority owner, is the CEO of the Sandman Hotel Group. Could it be that the naming rights are part of the advertising rights deal?)
The vote on the new lease passed by a 5-3 vote among councillors.
"I have to admit, I had a little bit of trouble swallowing somebody coming to me with their hands out and they're a billionaire," Dieter Dudy, one of the councillors who voted for the agreement, told Klassen.
Gaglardi also owns the NHL's Dallas Stars. He is the CEO of the Northland Properties Group, which owns, among other things, the Sandman and Sutton Place hotels, as well as Denny's and Moxie's restaurants, and Shark clubs.
Gaglardi and four ex-Blazers — Shane Doan, Jarome Iginla, Mark Recchi and Darryl Sydor — purchased the franchise from the Kamloops Blazers Sports Society, a community group, in 2007.
According to the winter 2016-17 issue of Canadian Business, the Gaglardis are worth $3.55 billion, leaving them in 20th spot among the countries' wealthiest "business dynasties."
Meanwhile, according to hockeyzoneplus.com, a site that tracks the earnings of NHL players, Recchi made US$50,943,000 during his playing days, while Sydor brought in $31,715,000. Both men have retired from playing. Doan's career earnings are at $41,294,000, with Iginla at $69,025,000. Doan and Iginla, both of whom played last season, are unrestricted free agents who have yet to sign new contracts.
Dudy told Klassen that he voted in favour of the new lease because of concerns that the Blazers might leave Kamloops.
However, under the terms of the sales agreement between Gaglardi's group and the society, the society has the first option on purchasing the franchise should ownership wish to sell it or move it.
In other words, the Blazers aren't going anywhere. Besides where would they go? Yes, there is an empty arena in Abbotsford, one that seats 7,000 for hockey, but the Vancouver Giants, who play out of Langley, would have a move and that isn't likely to happen.
In November 2007, Bob Smillie, the society's executive director, told its annual meeting that "the option to purchase is at the same price less 10 per cent of what has been paid in the current transaction and is subject to the same conditions. It is transferable to any new owner who may be seeking a franchise in Kamloops."
According to Smillie, the society felt holding that option was important even though Gaglardi's group promised to keep the team in Kamloops.
"It's good and well for everybody to indicate that they would be here forever," Smillie said at the time. "But we all know that forever is not necessarily forever."
Smillie, who also chaired the society's governance committee, pointed out
that WHL bylaws don't contain anything guaranteeing the franchise could not be moved.
"They have guidelines only; there are no specific requirements within the Western Hockey League bylaws for the new owners of the franchise to keep the operation within the city," Smillie said. "The board, in its due diligence in discussions with the league, has determined that the guidelines of the league, in fact, would request the new owners to maintain the franchise in Kamloops for a minimum of five years."
Kamloops taxpayers also are on the hook for more than $1 million in upgrades to the arena, all of them at the request of the WHL. That includes $300,000 to improve lighting — the WHL has requested that all arenas have LED lightning to facilitate HD telecasts — and about $1 million to retrofit boards and glass.
Klassen's complete story is right here.
Two former WHL coaches will be part of the Team Canada's coaching staff at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. . . . Willie Desjardins, a former head coach of the Medicine Hat Tigers (2002-10), will be Canada's head coach, while Dave King, who coached the WHL's Billings Bighorns (1977-79), will be one of the assistant coaches. . . . The NHL has opted out of the Games, so Hockey Canada will put together a national team of players from outside that league. Its schedule begins with a tournament in Sochi, Russia, from Aug. 6-9. Canada then will move on to St. Petersburg, Russia, for another tournament, Aug. 14-17. . . . Team Canada's roster for the Sochi Cup includes a number of former WHL players, including F Gilbert Brule (Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, KHL), F Bud Holloway (Skellefteå AIK, SHL), F Rob Klinkhammer (Dinamo Minsk, KHL), F Brandon Kozun (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, KHL), F Ben Maxwell (Spartak Moskva, KHL), F Brandon McMillan (Dinamo Riga, KHL) and F Linden Vey (Barys Astana, KHL).
Taking Note has been told that the Kootenay Ice has dropped all of its part-time scouts, choosing to keep only Garnet Kazuik, the director of scouting. Kazuik, a former WHL player, has been with the Ice for 12 seasons, 10 of them as director of scouting. . . . Matt Cockell, the Ice's president and general manager, apparently told the ex-scouts that he is changing the business model and is moving to a system that employs three full-time scouts in Western Canada. . . . The WHL's 2016-17 Guide showed the Ice with eight scouts — Wayne Dougherty, Peter Dubbeldam, Ward Edwards, Scott Frizzell, Chad Harden, Zenon Herasymiuk, Scott Perry and Tim Schick. Taking Note has been told by a source familiar with the situation that "all eight part-time scouts were let go." . . . Cockell hasn't responded to a request asking if he had made changes in the scouting department.
The Edmonton Oil Kings have placed G Patrick Dea, 20, on waivers. Dea, who is from St. Albert,
Alta., played in 55 games with Edmonton last season, going 19-31-3, 3.86, .882. In 123 career regular-season games, he is 48-55-8, 3.34, .890. . . . Dea was a first-round selection by Edmonton in the WHL's 2012 bantam draft. . . . With Dea's departure, the Oil Kings appear poised to start the season with Travis Child as their No. 1 guy. He was acquired from the Brandon Wheat Kings on May 30, for a conditional fifth-round pick in the 2018 bantam draft. Child, 20, played two-plus seasons with the Swift Current Broncos before being traded to Brandon last season. . . . Chances are that Boston Bilous, 16, is No. 2 on the Edmonton depth chart. From Langley, B.C., he was a fourth-round pick by the Oil Kings in the 2016 bantam draft. He spent last season with the Fraser Valley Thunderbirds of the B.C. Major Midget Hockey League. He finished with a 2.20 GAA.
G Jeffrey Veitch, who will turn 20 on Oct. 4, has signed with the Waldorf University Warriors, who play out of Forest City, Iowa. Veitch was an eighth-round selection by the Kootenay Ice in the eighth round of the WHL's 2012 bantam draft. He played last season with the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners and Timmins Rock of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League. Before that, he played three seasons with the junior B Mission Outlaws. He is from Mission, B.C.
The Saskatchewan Hockey Hall of Fame held its gala night on Saturday in North Battleford and there were a number of inductees with ties to the WHL, including Bob Bourne, Stan Dunn, Graham Tuer and Ken Wheler. . . . John Cairns of the Battlefords News Optimist has a terrific recap right here.
Meanwhile, on Sunday night in Canmore, the Alberta Hockey Hall of Fame held its induction dinner, with the hall doors swinging open for Mel Davidson, Bill Hay, Tony Kollman, Perry Pearn, Glen Sather and the Sutter family — yes, the entire family. . . . There is more right here.
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And thanks to all of you who messaged me afterwards. The kind words are much appreciated.
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From Tuesday's edition of The New York Times:
"Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist, has examined the brains of 202 deceased football players. A broad survey of her findings was published on Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
"Of the 202 players, 111 of them played in the N.F.L. — and 110 of those were found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., the degenerative disease believed to be caused by repeated blows to the head.
"C.T.E. causes myriad symptoms, including memory loss, confusion, depression and dementia. The problems can arise years after the blows to the head have stopped."
The full report from The Times is right here, and it's well worth a look.
This should end, once and for all, the debate about whether blows to the head are responsible for CTE. A person needn't have been concussed in order to end up with CTE; it's quite simple -- blows to the head aren't a good thing. Period.
This also should be enough for the powers-that-be in any hockey league that allows fighting to act to get it out of the game.
The OHL's Saginaw Spirit is looking for a head coach after Spencer Carbery left to join an unnamed AHL team as an assistant coach. The 35-year-old Carbery, who is from Victoria, spent one season with the Spirit, after working for five seasons as director of hockey operations and head coach of the ECHL's South Carolina Stingrays, who have an affiliation with the NHL's Washington Capitals. . . . Last season, the Spirit finished 27-32-9 and out of the playoffs.
David Bell has joined the AHL's Ontario Reign as an assistant coach. Bell, 40, spent the previous four seasons with the OHL's Niagara IceDogs, three as an assistant coach and last season as head coach. . . . With the Reign, Bell will work alongside head coach Mike Stothers. They spent three seasons (2004-07) together with the OHL's Owen Sound Attack, Stothers as head coach and Bell as an assistant. . . . Bell has previous AHL coaching experience having worked as an assistant for two seasons (2007-09) with the Springfield Falcons.
Mad respect for my man @clouston25 and the Nicola Knights fighting fires and saving lives out in the Interior right now #BCfires #bigman pic.twitter.com/LGlvUdNgfL
— Torrin White (@Tbreez27) July 17, 2017
If you're wondering, @clouston25 is the Twitter handle for former WHL D Connor Clouston, whose father is Shaun Clouston, the GM and head coach of the Medicine Hat Tigers.
Labels: Andrea Klassen, Danis Zaripov, Dave King, Dieter Dudy, Edmonton Oil Kings, Jeff Putnam, Kamloops Blazers, Kootenay Ice, Patrick Dea, Willie Desjardins


Experience the trip of the lifetime when you visit the magical hill towns, gorgeous villas, beautiful beaches and unforgettable gardens of Florence and Tuscany. Sample superb wines and local delicacies, and find unique treasures to buy and take home along the way at the best restaurants and markets. Stay at a great hotel, no matter your budget, and use our inside tips to explore must-see museums and galleries that boast artwork from great Renaissance artists.


The word Saga is defined by the Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper as: A narrative composition of Iceland or Norway in the Middle Ages, or one that has their characteristics.
Prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc.
Also called saga novel: is a form of the novel in which the members or generations of a family or social group are chronicled in a long and leisurely narrative.
The word Saga is related to Old English secgan, meaning: to say.
A palavra Saga é definida pelo Dicionário Etimológico Online, © 2010 Douglas Harper como: Uma composição narrativa da Islândia ou Noruega da Idade Media, ou outra tendo essas características.
Narrativa em prosa de conquistas e acontecimentos na historia de um personagem, família, etc.
Também chamada como uma historia em saga, com sendo um tipo de ficção na qual a historia de pessoas ou gerações de uma família ou grupo social é contada em longa narrativa.
A palavra Saga é derivada do Inglês Antigo: secgan, que significa: dizer.
Of life's blood, day by day.
Not laid to rest in peace.


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Home Business and Money 'Sell in May' still lurks, but markets remain tranquil
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'Sell in May' still lurks, but markets remain tranquil
by Terry Ponick May 18, 2015
written by Terry Ponick May 18, 2015
WASHINGTON, May 18, 2015 – As of 2 p.m. EDT Monday, all major U.S. market indices are modestly up, although, as is typical of these 2015 melt-ups, volume thus far remains anemic. This may indicate that the bulls are not quite as numerous here as they once were earlier in the year.
The "sell in May" fear is still palpable. It appears that's what a fair number of big investors are doing, as they usually do around this time of year, the better to enjoy summering in their mansions and yachts in the Hamptons with relatively few worries. Minimizing in advance their portfolio's exposure for what's often a long, hot and down summer on Wall Street is the way they roll. So selling and/or hedging is what they usually do around now.
Gold and silver are trying to rally again this week. This will likely fail at some point when The Powers That Be (TPTB) put the kibosh on the party as they've been doing with frustrating regularity for at least a year now. That's why the Gold Bugs hate them.
We picked up a tiny bit of the Swiss silver bullion ETF (symbol: SIVR) today just for fun, hoping to make a few bucks at least on what might be yet another short ride.
We usually choose SIVR, BTW, because it's a commission=free trade at our brokerage and because it lives in Switzerland and is backed by actual bullion in the vault rather than by pieces of IOU paper like the far more popular SLV.
This week, it seems, the market once again is indulging in Fear of the Fed. The Yellen Oracle is expected to hold forth on Friday with what may be the latest non-news hint on interest rates.
Meanwhile, the nonsense in Greece is once again likely to come to a boil on Thursday or Friday as ECB types and the far-left Greek government get together in Riga, Latvia, for yet another attempt to break their impasse. That won't happen.
The hard left Greek government is flush out of options in these current negotiations. But we predict that as good Commies all, they'll hold to the always successful model for negotiations pioneered by Ho Chi Minh during his endlessly jousts with the U.S. about peacefully ending the war in Vietnam.
Ho and his boys correctly took U.S. negotiators (like the French before them) as patsies and saps whose wobbly natures were already weakened by Soviet-financed Red Diaper Baby agitators in the U.S. Their "community organizing" managed to pretty much set the country against continuing that proxy war against communism.
Taking advantage of this backdrop, the North Vietnamese would promise any number of good things at a bargaining session and then, as soon as the U.S. negotiators were back on a plane to Washington, they'd violate every single thing they'd agreed to, the better to cement their military position for absorbing the south, something they'd always fully intended to do anyway.
This ruse worked brilliantly for Uncle Ho, setting a pattern for all negotiations by nearly any adversary vs. traditional Western powers ever since.
Western pols and their appointees regard job No. 1 as protecting their lucrative political positions of power. For that reason, they're not prepared to take any negative publicity whatever at the negotiating table no matter what's at stake, be it national sovereignty or what's for lunch.
Whatever the topic, if the permanent cadre of lefty agitators out there threatens boycotts, strikes, agitation, violence or all the above if Western governments don't cave, the Western politicians in power immediately begin to negotiation on their own capitulation, dubbing any potential agreement in that direction as a "big win." The Commies laugh and scoop all the chips off the table.
It all effectively a mass Neville Chamberlain situation, and it works for the lefties (and, lately, for the Islamofascist thugs like the Iranians who are succeeding them) every single time. Which gets us back to Greece.
The current Communist government won't back off their asinine position because they figure they don't have to. They figure the Eurocrats are more worried about their banks and businesses getting stiffed in a Greek default than the Greeks are about the consequences, and they're likely right.
Worse, we suspect that the wily Vlad "The Impaler" Putin has already worked out some kind of secret deal with his Greek fellow travelers involving an alternate energy pipeline, complete with financial goodies attached.
This the Europeans fear as well, as the effective transformation of an EU country into a New Iron Curtain Russian satellite nation would lead not only the world but the EU members themselves to question that shaky union's continued viability.
The Greeks know this, and they're playing they're game of chicken for all it's worth, adding real bite to their continuing intransigence. As good Communists, they simply don't care, but know their opponents do. It always makes for a strong negotiating position, even if it looks weak.
So, taking continued fear of the Fed's raising interest rates and the likely upcoming EU punt on whether a Greek exit from the Euro—aka, the "Grexit"—will happen in June, the stock market should remain iffy all week, with plenty of room for a terrifying Wile E. Coyote style waterfall collapse at any time.
Sinking money into investments in this environment is one nervous proposition. For that reason, we'll again avoid any trading tips today, though we have to admit, those battered utility stocks with their high yields are looking tasty.
But we still pretty much plan to keep a 25-35 percent cash position indefinitely. It's just too dangerous, and these markets are being massively manipulated by central banks.
This all makes traditional investing tough, as TPTB keep pushing stocks up, little by little, far beyond what they're really worth. There's little we can do about it except go along for the ride.
But at some point, TPTB are going to have to let go. And when they do, well, as American poet e.e. cummings once wrote:
listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go
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Biographical Note: Dateline Award-winning music and theater critic for The Connection Newspapers and the Reston-Fairfax Times, Terry was the music critic for the Washington Times print edition (1994-2010) and online Communities (2010-2014). Since 2014, he has been the Business and Entertainment Editor for Communities Digital News (CDN). A former stockbroker and a writer and editor with many interests, he served as editor under contract from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and continues to write on science and business topics. He is a graduate of Georgetown University (BA, MA) and the University of South Carolina where he was awarded a Ph.D. in English and American Literature and co-founded one of the earliest Writing Labs in the country. Twitter: @terryp17
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Three TracTracTors level desert land for orchards. Indio. California. The soil is chiefly sea shells, long since ground into powder by wind-driven sands scoured from near-by mountains.


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Japanese: B: The Beginning
Type: ONA
Aired: Mar 2, 2018
Producers: None found, add some
Studios: Production I.G
Genres: Action, Mystery, Police, Psychological, Supernatural, Thriller
Ranked #1495Popularity #751Members 139,288
ONAProduction I.G
Episodes: /12
In a world powered by advanced technology, crime and action unfold in the archipelagic nation of Cremona. Koku, the protagonist. Keith, the legendary investigator of the royal police force RIS. A mysterious criminal organization. A wide variety of characters race through the fortified city as it is beset by the serial killer, Killer B, and a chain of crimes in this suspense drama by director Kazuto Nakazawa and Production I.G
(Source: Netflix via ANN)
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Sequel: B: The Beginning 2
Characters & Voice Actors
Kazama Flick, Keith
Hirata, Hiroaki
Kokuu
Kaji, Yuki
Hoshina, Lily
Seto, Asami
Sato, Satomi
Izanami
Saiga, Mitsuki
Ross, Gilbert
Morikawa, Toshiyuki
Yoshinaga, Kaela
Koshimizu, Ami
Ishikawa, Kaito
Brandon, Brian
Toyonaga, Toshiyuki
Toga, Eric
Touchi, Hiroki
More staff
Kuroki, Rui
Nakazawa, Kazuto
Director, Character Design, Original Creator, Chief Animation Director
Yamakawa, Yoshiki
Nagasaki, Yukio
Sound Director
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"The Perfect World" by Marty Friedman feat. Jean-Ken Johnny, KenKen
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268 people found this review helpful
Overall 8
Character 6
Enjoyment 8
It's so rare to see an anime of such high quality to take as many risks as B: The Beginning does. Sure it stumbles a bit along the way, but the final result is undeniably an ambitious and thoroughly entertaining ride worth watching.
The story is totally insane on paper but is somehow even more bewildering in action thanks to such lovingly crafted visuals by Production I.G. with a talented director at the helm. It is in one part a sci-fi police procedural similar to Psycho-Pass, but simultaneously a game of cat and mouse like Death Note. These wild ideas packed on top of each other in only a brief 12 episode season makes for slightly underdone execution and lacking development. In my opinion, there's enough good in this show to outweigh the negatives, but to summarize them before diving into the analysis:
+Fantastic Action Scenes
+Great Animation
+Expressive Dub and Good Soundtrack
+Likable Characters
+Shocking Twists that add Rewatch Value
+Emotional Conclusion
-Underdone Sci-Fi Setting
-Large Cast of Supporting Characters are Underdeveloped
-Too Fast-Paced at Times
-Confusing Story at First
To start I'll say, B: The Beginning is a thriller with plenty of twists and turns in its story to keep you interested. It's not really a traditional mystery because (like Death Note) the titular 'Killer B' that the title alludes to is revealed in the first episode and is one of our two protagonists. One being the enigmatic Koku with his black wings and nack for murdering criminals; the other is Keith Flick a gruff former detective who's helping out the police hunt down killer B. He's sort of inept in social situations which derives plenty of comedy that I found quite funny. Keith's intelligence makes him a perfect lead to see this investigation from. Whenever he's in deep thought putting the pieces of a mystery together we see his thoughts visibly through words and diagrams that appear onscreen. It's all quite neat as well, not cluttering the screen and conveying his organized mind. He even has a tragic backstory to complement his gruff design which ties into the story and is revisited before the end to give him a satisfying conclusion to his character arc.
Our second protagonist, the teenage Koku struggles to maintain relevance until his backstory is fleshed out during the second half. Keith gets the majority of the screen time of the two. All of the characters have some level of charm making them all quite watchable, excluding Koku. He's just an angsty teenager with black-wings and an arm that turns into a sword… yeah my interest in him was only maintained by his mysterious origin. That origin takes an intruiging shape and justifies all of the insanity we see up until then in an extremely satisfying twist. I found Koku alienating at first, but he proved to be a crucial part of the story as it went on. While I couldn't entirely get invested in his subdued personality, at least I understood why he was so subdued. His backstory and to a greater extent the show's whole story became a mystery I didn't expect to be engaged with but I loved it. I would definitely rewatch this show to understand it with the knowledge of the twists. It was a huge risk making an experience that relies so heavily on ambiguity, thankfully it worked out because the twists are so rewarding.
My favorite member of the supporting cast, Lily stands out with her sarcastic, defiant, and irreverent personality. Working alongside Keith, her lack of experience gives the audience a simpler and more comprehensive perspective on the potentially alienating first half. Her separate scenes were a joy to watch, never hurting the show's overall dark tone. I do wish that she and the other supports had more visible development by the end. At least the protagonists grow a sufficient amount thanks to their backstories being woven into the story.
Throughout the first half of the show, a criminal group creates havoc throughout the show's fictional sci-fi country Cremona. Sadly the setting becomes little more than an afterthought because the main focus of the show is the game of cat and mouse. Just like the detective Keith and his fellow investigators, we are left in the dark on what exactly is happening in the terror-filled nation of Cremona and why. It's an effective way to immerse us in their struggle to find the truth and put an end to the violent chaos. We get information on the terrorist group as the police do, it rarely feels like the audience is ahead of Keith's knowledge. Unless of course, we're seeing the story through Koku's eyes as he's fighting at the heart of the cacophony.
Mostly populated by thrilling action sequences, the first half spares very little time on developing the many police officers due to the quick pacing. Instead the talented Kazuto Nakazawa gives us recognizable character designs (oh lord especially the clown makeup cultists), strong English voice performances, and a punchy script that gives the cast enough personality to not be cardboard cutouts fighting a pointless battle. While I did find myself caring about the characters when their lives were threatened, I can't guarantee everyone else will like their charm. Once the pace settles in the second half, development does come quite plentifully with huge twists that validate the madness seen in the first half. There's plenty of rewatch value after understanding why the first half is so filled with ambiguity. There's even a teaser at the end of the last episode indicating a potential second season. Even though the story wraps up really well, I'd love to watch another season of it.
Jumping sporadically from one catastrophe to the next, the story showcases Production I.G.'s best abilities. CGI vehicles shake with realistic physics during the many entertaining car chase scenes. The camera is always placed right at the center of the action, never shying away from an abundance of violence, never afraid of blowing its budget on the spectacle. The creator/director Kazuto Nakazawa known for good animation work on series like Samurai Champloo has finally been given a project worthy of his talent. This is the only anime that I can say has a clown makeup wearing cultist skateboarding down the side of a skyscraper while being chased by a black-winged vigilante teenager. All with beautifully fluid animation at high speeds. If that's not ambitious, then I don't know what is.
Most of all, the background art is always well detailed, sometimes breathtaking. Even if those backgrounds don't necessarily have details that flesh out the setting much more than 'it looks pretty much like modern-day America', they still look damn great.
B: The Beginning may have a confusing and fast-paced first half, with a poorly explained setting and a lack of villain motivations, but at least it's never boring. Not one bit.
The villains eventually do get explained motivations (and the clown makeup actually makes sense!) but it does come in a twist so you'll have to find out the answers for yourself! Getting to those motivations will mean you'll have to get through the bewildering first half, but don't worry! And besides, the sword duals are so amazing during the early episodes. It's constant fluidly animated, sakuga that will grab your attention where the writing may not. But like I said before, after watching it I can say confidently there is a reason for everything that happens early on, even if it's confusing for a first time viewer.
On top of the great visuals, the sound design is also spectacular. Everything from the slice of a sword, whirring car engines heard as they drive by, and explosions with intense audiovisual feedback. It's so impactful at every moment. Even when there isn't a satisfying sound effect playing, the perfectly cerebral thriller soundtrack is reverberating. The ending song "The Perfect World" is amazing too, performed by Marty Friedman with Man With A Mission's quite talented vocalist.
It's common for people to criticize edginess in dark and violent anime like this one. It definitely lives up to the shows that inspired it, but does it break out of the overbearing edginess we're used to seeing in this Crime-Thriller genre? In my opinion, absolutely. There's enough comic relief separated from the high stakes action to make the characters seem like real people, not just pawns in a to be moved by the writer. There's an overall silliness that covers much of it, but it knows when to be serious. However, nothing is spared from the craziness that B loves to employ. It's everywhere; from the absurd hacking sequences with foot pedals (for what reason, I don't know!) to the to its occasionally hilarious cast. Also, the cultists' uniform makeup also helps them seem less like a feared undefined entity and more like mentally disturbed clowns that you'd want to run from if you ever saw on the streets. It's a ride, a really fun time that isn't afraid to get its hands dirty and only tries to entertain.
Score Breakdown:
[Story: 6/10] Intriguing premise that takes it's time to get going, strong ending.
[Character: 6/10] Good leads, underdone supporting cast.
[Art: 9/10] All around great, relatively tame towards the end.
[Sound: 9/10] Solid dub and soundtrack. Mediocre sub.
[Enjoyment: 8.5/10] Confusing at first, becomes more engaging as it goes.
[Overall Score: 7.7/10]
It's all too rare for us to get a high budget anime like B: The Beginning that takes so many risks to create a unique and memorable experience. Thankfully those risks paid off and it turned out really good. It's far from perfect, but I'm just happy such a lovingly crafted experience like this got made at all. My only hope is that shows will take inspiration from it in the future.
First Devilman Crybaby, now this! My expectations of Netflix original animes have risen.
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RainyRai (All reviews)
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B: The Beginning combines two separate stories within each other, one of supernatural mystery and one with a detective searching for a murderer. The fundamental problem with the show is that both stories suck ass and don't really connect together at all. You could rather easily cut out one of these plot lines from the entire narrative and not lose that much in terms of story quality in the other. Hell, the show may be better for it. So, don't even read the rest of this review, just write the show off based on the word of one internet stranger alone. Trust me, I'm the only internet stranger that matters.
I hate when reviews talk about the meaty stuff first and then mention the audiovisuals at the end in much shorter detail, so we're going to escalate in our meaty bonanza. The production values for this show are great. B: The Beginning does not have any dips in quality, it is consistently good looking and sometimes better than that for its entire run. While not specifically my aesthetic, the visuals are certainly strong, and the animation is quite good the entire show. Kazuto Nakazawa has many important seats visual wise, as the chief animation director, character designer, director in general, and original creator of the show. Other shows he's had influence on visual wise that you may have heard of are Zankyou no Terror and Samurai Champloo, so if you loved the visuals in those shows, this may be worth a shot for you.
Sound wise, this show is pretty underwhelming. The soundtrack isn't of poor quality but binging through the entire show it was easy to notice they were just playing the same couple of tracks over and over again per episode, which got grating. This show does have a cool ending theme song as well, though the visuals for it aren't noteworthy.
I'll be frank; the supernatural plot of B: The Beginning is a pile of cockshit, getting bad quickly and never recovering. The premise, is that we have "Killer B" who is a non human creature with insane powers. He has wings, his arm can turn into a sword, he has an edgy anime left eye, his skin turns black when he starts fighting people, and has regenerative powers. This part of the show is about him, and the mythos of his species. This isn't a bad premise on its own although it isn't especially unique, but fun things could be done with it! Sadly, B: The Beginning does not do anything fun with this. Instead it goes into the most basic direction imaginable in every shape and form. I felt like I had vietnam flashbacks to every anime I've ever watched while finding out about this character's backstory. I don't mind if a show isn't unique as long as it is executed in an appealing way, and this show very much does not execute this aspect in an appealing way. In order to do that, I'd need to care about the characters, because every single character in the supernatural plot did not matter to me, including the most important character, Killer B a.k.a Koku. Koku's entire character basically revolves around the "tragedy" of what happened to him when he was a child and his girlfriend Yuna. When bad things happen to Yuna, he gets mad and yells like the shounen boy he is. He has nothing else going on so his character gets incredibly annoying being on screen so much when he is so uninteresting. Speaking of Yuna, she is a prime example of how this show can not write female characters very well. She is just Koku's girlfriend and the damsel in distress. She doesn't have her own character, her own motivations, nor does she do anything of importance in the story. She is just a macguffin, that is her entire character. The other chucklefucks, are all completely inconquestial to everything that it is kinda laughable. Pretty much every single one of the supernatural characters in this show is a stereotypical edgy anime crazy person, and all of them get taken out with little fanfare. Even an antagonist that remained in the shadows and slowly had intrigue building up for his encounter with the main character, ended up not mattering at all. Only one of these characters is an actual threatening adversary to the main character, but he isn't given enough time or personality to leave an impact on the viewer.
Now, the other half of B: The Beginning is a story about Keith Flick hunting down the criminal that murdered someone close to him, and the bonds he has with the people in his life. While this side of B: The Beginning is better than everything related to Koku, it isn't good by any stretch. The police force have some fun personalities in them, most notably Hoshino Lily, but they don't leave much of an impact at all. Keith himself is just an eccentric genius character and this is shown to the audience in a terrible way, because the show doesn't actually know how to represent this so it just throws bullshit at you. Keith solves the answer to a certain problem in episode 1 after writing a bunch of mathematical gibberish on a board, which is not the only the time that the show attempts to make him look smart despite the staff having little idea on how to present a character that actually is as smart as Keith. I found him quite dull. The main villain of this story line isn't very good either. The show takes too long to start delving into his mindset and motivations that by the time it even attempted to do any fleshing out of the character my patience had already been worn out. Kaela, a side character, is similar to Keith in that they are supposed to be crazy good at something, but the show doesn't know how to show it. She is the classic hacker dude of the group. She has a bunch of monitors, four fucking keyboards, that's right, four keyboards, weird foot pedals for some reason, you get the gist. Again, it is all just bullshit. Lily is the single most engaging character in the show due to her spunky personality, but the show doesn't use her as much as they should have. In the finale she is just a tool for the last section of this storyline instead of getting to do something on her own. Like I said earlier in the review, this show does not write its female characters very well. While I don't think the male characters are any good either, the writing and presentation of the female characters is fairly sexist. It isn't to an extreme amount, but it is still a detriment to the show.
B: The Beginning… is pretty bad. haHAA get it, cause of the letter B bayBEEEE. I honestly regret ever watching a single episode of anime in my life.
ButadonMeitantei (All reviews)
Have you ever thought to yourself: "Hey, I wonder what would it be like if someone combined Terror in Resonance with Tokyo Ghoul." ? or "What if someone combined Psycho Pass with Death Note?"
No? Well, me neither. However, it seems B: The Beginning is here to fulfil your non-existent needs...
But this isn't even exactly true either.
Story: Whilst the central story borrows many elements like that which I have mentioned, it is, with all elements combined, very different to most Anime of the genre. Although I have to say the synopsis given on MAL is very vague and misleading.
To start off with, Koku, the seemingly-angsty teen character, is not the protagonist, or at least, the only protagonist. The older, ragged Keith Flick, a smart but relatable detective in the Royal Police Force, is the other, and it's this combination of two intertwining plots that make the story so much different.
Without any spoilers, there are twists and turns at various points in the story. However, some twists fall in the 'predictable' category, some seem to come from nowhere, yet, the few twists other than those definitely make up for them. The pacing is also noticeably erratic, but I didn't notice that as much.
Don't come into this show expecting a drawn-out fight each episode, nor an entire gore-fest (although gore is prevalent), nor a 100%-realistic psychological battle of wits. But trust me, the story is mostly unpredictable, actually quite complicated too, and overall, that's a major advantage. 7/10
Art/Animation: There's not much to say here. As for the art, the characters are rarely off-model nor act unrealistically, although sometimes it's intentional and for comedic effect (I also have to give attention to the attention to detail for Keith's stubble).
The animation for the fight scenes is good when it's close-up, but may be seen as lacking in the long-shots, although very rarely, I do notice bad animation that make it look like a screenshot of a character is just being moved by an invisible mouse, but those scenes are few and far-between. CG is also used for animating the cars, although it's not too bad till too much of it is used, but then again, that is not often. 7/10
Sound: Although not as good nor unique as Netflix's Devilman Crybaby OST, the soundtrack is a lot better than standard TV anime. The soundtrack isn't especially jarring, but is most of the time woven well into every scene. Tense moment? Tense soundtrack. There's one fight scene in particular early on where they use a track very, very suitable to the setting, without spoilers, which I have to give props for.
The ED is nothing special, but I like the use of English lyrics sung actually well. 8/10
Characters: This is probably the weakest area of the show. Although each and every character's face, personality and body type is very different from each-other, as expected of the studio that did Attack on Titan... In comparison to other series? Not so much.
For example, one character has black hair, and one different-coloured eye. If I gave you that description alone, you could probably think of loads of characters. Another character is a short, bald fat guy. Another is a tall guy with long blonde hair. The list goes on. I don't expect every single character to look different to any other character that came before it, but it is noticeable.
Personalities mostly suffer from being 1-dimensional. One character just seems to just follow one or two particular motives, without any particular character flaws. Another character isn't even given a backstory and is killed off without really meaning anything. No characters particularly develop as the story goes on, yet some characters, important characters, DO have more complex and well-built personalities. In all, 6/10
Overall: B The Beginning is nothing amazing. But it is nothing terrible either, and for sure, it's entertaining, and kept me hooked for the entire time I was watching. There's probably a lot more religious and ideas about life and death and humanity sprinkled in the story than I found from my first viewing, and the ending of the series is actually relatively conclusive. Sometimes things aren't explained in the series, and a lot is left for the viewer to work out, but overall, I'd give B: The Beginning a 7/10. A B Grade. After all, this is just the beginning, right...?
(This is my first review so sorry if I made any mistakes, thanks for reading!)
maxmolen (All reviews)
At first I thought this was going to be an simple cat and mouse game. Where the police would go after the murderer only to find him in ep 12 as the nice boy no one would suspect, but that wasn't the case and I loved it. I got more and more hooked on the story as I progressed. The mystery started to unravel. Who was the real murderer? and to find it out in ep 12 got me fired up, everything fell into place, everything became clear I always love it when an anime resolves everything in the end. One minor side-note I would have liked it more if there was just an tad bit more of an explanation. also there are certain comedic scenes to lighten up the dark tones of the series. I would easily give the story an 8/10.
the art lets just say it was great it looked good it felt right and the information that was written over the screen felt like it had an certain elegance. 9/10.
the sound while the intro was quite intresting and there was an song that was unique most of the songs didn't stick very well. i would give it no more than an 7/10
the characters in the serie are quite intresting, espacially their backgrounds. 8/10
Overal I can say the creator of this story put alot of time in it and it shows, this story will take for an ride it might get weird but it will make sense in the end.
Side note I hope there will be an season 2 its teased in the end credits of ep 12.
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